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Animal Windfest
Event dates: 10 - 12 Sep 2010
Event address: Sandbanks Beach, Shore Road, Poole, BH13 7PS
Detailed map: multimap 
About the event:
Friday 10th to Sunday 12th September 2010
The South Coast's biggest action sports festival. Visit Sandbanks Beach for windsurfing, kitesurfing, stand-up paddleboarding, wakeboarding, bike display and much more.
The only free daytime beach sports festival in the UK, with three nights of ticketed evening parties, Windfest attracts the biggest names in the extreme sports industry and at least 10,000 visitors each year.
Going skyward for the first time ever, Windfest will play host to the Red Bull Matadors at 2.30pm on Sunday 12th September for an exhilarating air display with Red Bull VIP area on the beach below.
Two new sports will also add to the visual feast this year; Ultimate Beach Frisbee and Surf Ski - a long, narrow, lightweight kayak with an open (sit-on-top) cockpit, usually with a foot pedal controlled rudder. Surf ski racing will be held off the beach on both Saturday and Sunday.
Visitors to the event will be able to watch a 16-strong team Ultimate Beach Frisbee tournament at advanced level, yet members of the public will be welcome to enter and join in the competition.
Fans of Stand Up Paddle boarding (SUP) will be able to enter a new distance paddle around Brownsea Island on Saturday afternoon. Open to anyone, the paddle will run separately to the professional's SUP race earlier in the day, organised by the sport's governing body, BSUPA.
Free.
